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John Keene. Photo: Nina Subin

All Together Now

Bookforum talks with John Keene about Punks, an assemblage of poems three decades in the making
Zachary Issenberg

Happiness, as Such

The austere delights of Natalia Ginzburg’s novels
Negar Azimi
Walter Pfeiffer, Untitled, 1990, C-print, 23 5/8 x 15 3/4". © Walter Pfeiffer/Courtesy Galerie Sultana.

Investigate Yourself, Dog!

Sean Thor Conroe’s portrait of the problematic male artist
Hermione Hoby

The Bad Old Days

On the gentrification of New York City and its crime fiction
Thomas Heise
Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 6, 1993. Data (Brent Spiner).

The Interpretation of Screens

A new history of therapy argues that the practice has always involved technology
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
paper trail
Hanif Abdurraqib. Photo: Megan Leigh Barnard
Zadie Smith considers Toni Morrison’s only short story; the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards finalists
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Bookforum talks with John Koenig about defining obscure emotions and experiences
Trevor Quirk
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Cover of the 1969 MacFadden edition of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 The Price of Salt.
The private writings of Patricia Highsmith
Melissa Anderson
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Amiri Baraka, Newark, New Jersey, 1959. Burt Glinn; © Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos.
How Black artists and activists revamped Ivy style
Melvin Backman
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Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920.
Revisiting Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and its interpreters
David Kurnick
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The Jinx, 2015, still from a six-part miniseries on HBO.
From the archives: The otherworldly charm of the psychopath
Elizabeth Schambelan
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